Re: Programming to Rest Server

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alan,

I wrote an article titled "RPG Consumes the REST" tht was published in 
the September 2009 issue of System iNEWS magazine.  Here's a link to it 
(you'll need a ProVIP subscription)
http://systeminetwork.com/article/rpg-consumes-rest

The article gives a brief description of the REST architecture, which is 
an architecture, not a protocol.  The protocol used for REST web 
services is HTTP.

Regarding your 500 error -- you simply haven't given me enough 
information to try to help you.  Either send me a debug file generated 
from HTTPAPI, or post a simple program that I'm able to run to reproduce 
your error.

The "official" support mailing list for HTTPAPI is the FTPAPI mailing 
list (which is for both FTPAPI and HTTPAPI) on my web site.  I don't 
mind discussing it here, but you'll connect with more existing HTTPAPI 
users over there:
http://www.scottklement.com/mailman/listinfo/ftpapi



On 8/12/2010 4:27 PM, Alan Campin wrote:
> I am using Scott's HTTP Api to attempt to write to a Rest Server.
>
> In all the previous projects that I have done using this api, the targets
> where outside the company servers but this server was created by a
> consultant and he tells me that it is a Rest Server.
>
> I am using the HTTP_Url_Get_XML to send the following
>
> http://cre-freitrater:8080/cre_freitrater/rest/freitrater/1
>
> The request chain that is being sent to it looks like the following:
>
> GET /cre_freitrater/rest/freitrater/1 HTTP/1.1  Host: cre-freitrater:8080
> User-Agent: http-api/1.23
>
> I am getting back a 500 response saying that there was an internal server
> error.
>
> I can type the same string (the first string) into the browser and it runs
> without a hitch.
>
> This is probably a Scott question but what has to be done different for REST
> server than a regular HTTP server?. According to what I have read it just
> uses regular HTTP protocols.
>
> Can anyone point me to an article on writing a Rest Client in RPG?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.